Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 460. - Petascelis remipes.(Brown, yellow, and chocolate.) name is Latin, and signifies oar-footed. It is a native ofSouthern Africa. The thorax is brown edged with yellow, and having a stripeof the same colour down the centre. The wings are chocolate-brown, deepening at the tips. Below, it is brown slightlymottled with yellow. The most conspicuous point in the insectis the structure of the hind legs, which are very large, flattened 20 INSKCTS ABROAD. like an oar-blade, and are edged
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 460. - Petascelis remipes.(Brown, yellow, and chocolate.) name is Latin, and signifies oar-footed. It is a native ofSouthern Africa. The thorax is brown edged with yellow, and having a stripeof the same colour down the centre. The wings are chocolate-brown, deepening at the tips. Below, it is brown slightlymottled with yellow. The most conspicuous point in the insectis the structure of the hind legs, which are very large, flattened 20 INSKCTS ABROAD. like an oar-blade, and are edged on the inside with a coating ofthick red down. In many of the Hemiptera the two sexes can easily be distin-guished by the hind legs, the thighs of which are large in themale and small in the female. This is the case with Molchinacomprcssicornis, which is a native of Para. The general colour of this insect is velvet-black, with anumber of metallic emerald-green scales. If examined by the. 401.—Molchina uuiupremucumiti (Black, with emerald spots.) :iid of a magnifying glass, these scales are seen to be gatheredthickly round certain centres. This is most conspicuous on thewings. Their ground colour is brown, powdered with goldenscales, and upon each is a velvet-black spot surrounded withseveral rows of the most brilliant emerald scales. The ends of the wings are bronze, and below it is purple-brown, changing to pinkish on the sides- The antemue areblack, except the firs! half of the flattened portion, which isyellow. FLATTENING in unexpected places is one of the principalcharacteristics of the Hemiptera, in which the legs, the antennse. THE SAME [NSECT IN TWO STAGES. 721 the thorax, the abdomen, and sometimes the whole body, are asflat as if they had passed between rollers. In the genus Metapodius, of which the present insect—anative of Brazil—is a good example, the hind legs are theportions affected. The colour of the insect is a dull red-brown,much like that of a
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